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On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation
2015
We study Coleman-De Luccia tunneling of the Standard Model Higgs field during inflation in the case when the electroweak vacuum is metastable. We verify that the tunneling rate is exponentially suppressed. The main contribution to the suppression is the same as in flat space-time. We analytically estimate the corrections due to the expansion of the universe and an effective mass term in the Higgs potential that can be present at inflation. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000355378200040
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Publication date
2015
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Volume
746
Start page
257
End page
260
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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September 28, 2015
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